 Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.  Mooriana: or, Selections from the works of J. Moore, illustr. by notes, by F ... - Page 230by John Moore - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ?... | |
 | Lindley Murray, H. T. N. Benedict - English language - 1832 - 204 pages
...insidious foe. Teach them that "Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, That to he hated, needs hut to he seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, , ' We first endure, then pity, then emhrace." Under the full conviction that instruction in morality, temperance, and piety,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...VERSE. Vice. — POPE. Vice' . . is a monster of so frightful mien', As', to be hated', needs but to be seen'; Yet seen too oft', familiar with her face', We first' . . endure', then' . . pity', then' . . . embrace*. Fall of Babylon. — MOORE. W6". wo'!— the time of thy visitation'... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be h/tted, needs but to be seen ,, Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power. Thy purpose firm, is equal to the... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1835 - 574 pages
...the well known lines of Pope : "Vice is a monster of BO frightful mien, As, to be hated, needa but to be seen ; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."* In the slow progress of some insidious disease, which is scarcely regarded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...them, costs the time and pain. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north?... | |
 | John Collins McCabe - American poetry - 1835 - 204 pages
...of the poet's assertion : "'Vice ia a monster of so frightful tne'm, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace ' "I will not dwell upon the 'new scenes and changes' through which I passed... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...but vices more hideous, for " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen ; " Yet seen too oft, familiar with! her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Since, then, high rank imposes, in its very nature, an obligation, — the... | |
 | Susanna Hopkins Mason - Pennsylvania - 1836 - 322 pages
...INSTRUCTION OF HER CHILDREN. " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." I PHILOM, am a friend to virtue and literature. I was pondering in my mind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...them, costs the time and pain. V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed ; Ask where's the north?... | |
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